
Church Ruins
1818 · Graphite on tan wove paper, laid down on tan wove card
28 × 36.9 cm (11 1/16 × 14 9/16 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago

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John Cart Burgess was an English watercolour painter whose practice centred on flowers and landscapes rendered with botanical precision. Active in the early 19th century, he belonged to the Burgess dynasty, a prolific family of painters whose work shaped English landscape and decorative painting across two generations. He also authored two treatises on painting technique, positioning himself as both practitioner and theorist of watercolour method.
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